Reactions to NASA's Fiscal Year 2011 proposed budget

This was an action packed press conference with programs getting slashed left and right. We show my reaction to some key points in the speech as well as the general reaction of Spacevidcasters around the world.What do you think of this new proposed path for NASA? Good? Bad? Something else completely? Join us live this Friday at 0200 UTC to chat in person right here on Spacevidcast.com!

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• nasa
• fy2011
• budget
• constellation
• ares
• orion
• cancelled

[darkhalo116]

how a bout we revive and update apallo

[spacevidcast]

@darkhalo116 That's basically what Ares and Orion sort of were going to be. If we were to literally bring back the Saturn V and Apollo components, it would be nearly impossible, because a lot of the blueprints of the hardware was lost.

[Cod4Paradox]

My idea:

1. Get a new president (this one extremely lacks ambition)

2. I want to see Canada, USA, China, India and Europe all work TOGETHER if

we even want to get close Mars, or the Moon or beyond

3. Step up private space companies (competition baby)

4. Why not have military cuts, and NASA budget INCREASES?

Most of these will never happen due to today's ignorant rulers, but there is always the future, right? Right?

[spacevidcast]

@Cod4Paradox America can go to the moon and Mars on it's own if it wanted, and private industry could contribute to it, as could commercial (if we built propellant depots, someone needs to haul the fuel to them afterall). NASA can't get budget increases unless the PUBLIC wants Congress to give NASA more money. This is why spacevidcast exists; to get you and your friends and family excited for space. Write your congressman. Tell them you feel NASA should get more funding and why.

[BGSlopy]

Just fund the russian engineers and researchers they tend to get the job done whit a lot less money .You are constantly using their cheaper and more reliable space planforms enyway .

[marmaladekamikaze]

@spacevidcast

Wrong, the blueprints are not lost, and there is a fully constructed practically flight ready Saturn V in Johnson Space Station. That Saturn V was intended for Apollo 18 but the funding was cut. And there is a fair bit of surplus hardware, in museums and in storage. In sum, you're just spouting misinformation.

[ti994apc]

@spacevidcast I think they can easily go to the Moon and beyond with the current budget. They just need to stop making space welfare programs, stop using the same Shuttle contractors with open ended costs, and start using fixed costs. They also need to be smarter. We don't have to have one giant Rocket for a single lift like Skylab or Apollo. We make ISS in small pieces and it makes sense to make a deep space vehicle with smaller launches rather than a single giant launch.

[ti994apc]

@skatebmxtom The best thing Bush did was end Shuttle (thank God). The best thing Obama did is cut Constellation (Thank God even more). The great thing both of them have done is start Cots with Bush and continue Cots with Obama.

[dcb1138]

YOU ALL WANTED CHANGE.....well here it is suckers

[DarPower1]

@skatebmxtom Because it was Obama who made the economy fall?

[DarPower1]

@Airclot Which one do you wanna chip a bit to get money for the gaping economic hole made by bush?

Military: Our protection.

Space: its just the spaceshutles, thats such a little part of Nasa.

Tax: Hell no.

The answer is obvious,

[DarPower1]

@ELM1941 No, they dont have money for the mission to place men on the moon for a very long period of time with extra bases. They are saving up to go to Mars,

[DarPower1]

@skatebmxtom How its saving money. Plus thankfully we got rid of thay stupid moon thing. We're laying down plans for Mars. Good, this saves money, thank you Obama. Its just the shuttles, jeez, we still can go to space, shuttles dont go far anyways.

[monokhem]

@baillou2 It's in Nuclear engineering or something like that. I think he has a lesser degree in astronautics. I just think there are other people with better ideas.